RMIT Master of Architecture Studio Posters, 2017 Semester 2

RMIT ARCHITECTURE MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO BALLOTING POSTERS SEM 2 2017

Hopkins Hill Homestead - Engraved by Frederick Grosse 1838

REASON’S ADVENTURES

CHARLOTTE ALGIE charlotte.algie@yale.edu Tuesday 5:30-9:30pm

Abstraction in design method 1000 Units of Housing integrated in an urban economic program

In his refusal of representation, Cedric Price set out in search of language to document a spatial field, its relationships through time and its variation. His project, therefore, initiates tools for harnessing the indeterminacy of systems, when architecture is understood primarily for its role in disturbing/reconfiguring interfaces between these systems and collective/individual subjectivities.

Through (1) a focused exploration into the work of one architect - Price - and his particular design strategies and (2) when tested and explored as methodologies for invigorated study of localised territorial examples, this studio will (3) encourage student’s individual formulations of a compelling and contemporary global architectural project entailed through brief to design 1000 units of multiple housing in Melbourne, Australia.

Cedric Price -

Oxford Corner House, London. 1966

I am no longer King! I am God! This studio continues the assault on Jack’s Magazine, a colonial gunpowder storage facility along the Maribyrnong River. The 3m high bluestone walls and 10m high earth blast wall are as alarming as anything by Lequeu, Ledoux and Boullee.

A studio program, as such, is described as a Holy City. It is an attempt to take into account the mesopotanic occupation of Melbourne. In part this has been prompted by the ficto-critical framing of previous studios, the want to continue investigating exhaustive methods in architecture, and the desire to emerge regaling against the backdrop of extraordinary loss. The existence of Shostakovich’s opera ‘The Nose’ will not be entirely ignored.

The studio has a clear approach that will be put to work: 1. the explicit aleatory alignment of things 2. the negotiation of scales that approximate the molecular, the mesopotanic and the muscular 3. iterative enquiry through an extended negotiation of the archaeological 4. the appropriation of any and every thing that can account for our gluttonous joy and unimaginable hope 5. the literacy of the image

This studio asks...

What can you do with an army?

N ABUCCO RMIT ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO DR MICHAEL SPOONER

WEDNESDAY 6.00pm

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RMIT / New-Territories Masters Intensive Studio

Francois Roche + Gwyllim Jahn + Benoit Durandin

The studio invites students to participate in developing a counter proposal to the Biennial of Malaysia.

The potential to initiate and initialise a bottom-up reaction has to be considered as the DNA of our course, a virus to implement in a perfect new post-capitalism order... where people are consumers before being citizens. We must face a legitimate urban design proposition based on top-down planning skills and expertise and at the same time conduct an illegitimate protest against the social and administrative organisation of the city. What could be the most appropriate and effective strategies, tooling, procedures to infiltrate and break a sectarian ‘planification’? What kind of disruption could be introduced to blur the city preassigned divisions and partitions? What could we propose to counterbalance the fragmentation of the city into individualistic properties used as lures by liberal planning models and anthropocentric politics? We must question how to metabolise, transform and exorcize the abuse of delegated power before it is issued; in order to build a city upon something which has not yet been drawn or built and corrupt a situation before it occurs.

The studio and associated production will question the right to ‘disobey’ with cutting-edge technologies and urban de-planification tools. It means illegal occupation, colonisation by a species (in our case human) of an exquisite corpse that allows to re-arrange, re-organise and re-question the panoptical and authoritarian relationship between architects and administrator-politicians responsible for urban

planning. This proposal explores the political model of the Barricade (see references attached) to construct dialectics of Centralisation VS Swarm, Planning VS Apparatuses.

What does it mean to react against the injunctions of ‘Happiness, Wealth, Security’ and ‘Elegance’ that pervade the discipline, models in which everything is planned, determined and pre-certified? How can we open breaches for territories made for experimentation? What does it mean to produce a reactive urbanism where citizens will be able at the same time to determine and react to the functions of the city?

To question the hierarchy between public and private status? Such a city's pulses will seize in real time feedbacks oscillating between the temptation of a social organisation and a poiesis in movement made of permanent adjustments and reconfigurations.

We will propose to develop some zones of resistances, some nuclei, where the notion of the barricade will be reevaluated as the first territorial virus of a possible bottom-up urbanism.

This course will have four branches of development: theoretical, computational, material robotic fabrication, and scenario-fiction. The project (design, process, research, documentation, fabrication, etc.) will emerge from the intrinsic collaborative work of our group, blurring the limits between students and instructors through a strategy of co-responsibility and co-authorship. It will be presented on these terms at the Malaysia Biennial.

more info see www.new-territories.com Studio runs week 1-7, intensive during week 3 and 7. location TBC

SEMESTER 2, 2017, RMIT MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO

IAN NAZARETH with PROF. MARTYN HOOK and GUESTS

A PROJECT - BASED INDUSTRY - PARTNERED STUDIO WITH PORTER DAVIS Volume is an agenda on quantity and quality – an excursion through typologies, type and the spatial and material explorations it stimulates. With the premise that residential project is the mainstay of the discipline of architecture, the studio positions itself as testing ground that hold the prospect of producing ideas and prototypes that can inform future practice. Despite our intentions, we contribute to less than ten percent of houses in Australia. Volume attempts to capture and channel the exuberance, innovation and rigour of the practice of domestic architecture to the volume housing industry.

The general housing markets rarely has any significant architectural input. Housing provisions and market offerings have evolved little, relative to the pace transformation of Australian households and social structures, the nature of the city or technologies. Projects will engage with the wider discourse of housing - first home buyers, downsizers, upsizers, owner occupiers, investors, ageing in place, multi-generational living, culture and the identity of the home.

The studio will design and critique prevalent and exemplary models of domestic architecture. In the initial weeks of the semester students will design a series of speculative housing projects that engage with sites from inner urban Melbourne, the dual-occupancy, multi block middle suburbs and the peri-urban frontier suburbs.

Projects will interrogate, deconstruct and reimagine the home – its various provisions, rooms, scale, adjacencies and qualities. These ideas will then be extended, exported and transferred to an

examination of detached dwellings with our industry partner - Porter Davis, through understanding their operations, constraints and visions.

We will work through a range of consideration and on a number of platforms from design and process oriented ones to building information modelling and virtual reality, with an aim to designing a home that is flexible, adaptable, sustainable and can anticipate and absorb transformation, in a market with shifting demographics and economics.

RMIT University have partnered with Porter Davis – one of the largest home builders in Australia. Porter Davis construct over 1500 homes annually, offering over a hundred designs that can be configured and customised. RMIT and Porter Davis will develop new dwelling types that encapsulates sustainability, buildability, integrates building services and structure while speculating about the future of housing.

The studio is a call to disrupt the status quo through innovative ideas and narratives for homes, designed through the use of new technologies, homes that are more responsive to its users and environment.

Could architects contribute to provision of volume housing? Are residential projects agents of urbanism? What will the future Australian home look like?

FABRICATING HISTORY

Fabrication: noun 1. the action or process of manufacturing or inventing something.

2. an invention; a lie.

Many contemporary modes of spatial production bear an illusion of specificity – a space for each thing, rather than a space for everything. Bringing forth an age of exponential growth of budging McMansions and endless and endlessly renovated shopping malls. Space has been commodified –stripped of meaning or purpose beyond the leveraging of capital.

The Fabricating History studio will explore whether these compositional systems can be re-appropriated and hybridised with contemporary procedural design systems to generate new forms of robust architecture that not only accommodate programmatic variety, but also programmatic instability.

Historical forms of architecture arguably achieved robustness through programmatic indeterminacy; where spatial, formal and ornamental composition was detached from program and relied on various sets of procedural or mathematical systems for its production.

Producing architectural forms that housed very broad ranges of activities, and accommodate dramatic changes in use over time without substantial modification.

These ideas will be tested through the design of a large Exhibition and Convention Centre in the Medini development site in Malaysia. The studio will form a part of the Malaysia Biennial 100YC: Medini 2017 studios, and will explore the role of historical precedent and referencing in the context of future cities.

BEN MILBOURNE

image: AD Quadratum, Fredrick Macody Lund.

WEDNESDAYS, 6-10PM

NEGOTIATE THAT! LYONS PRACTICE STUDIO Semester 2 – 2017 The studio explores the idea of design as a kind of negotiation, one that is charged with multiple histories, contradictory interests and unexpected alliances.

The negotiations will create an idea of a public realm of public architecture that unexpectedly holds together ‘competing’ interests. The city is a treaty in built form.

Current projects by Lyons such as Yagan Square in Perth and RMIT’s own New Academic Street are ‘negotiated architecture’, where the complexities of the their cities, cultures and stories are embraced. Multiple ideas are curated into each project to design a civic realm that can walk and talk different narratives.

The final studio project (revealed after a ‘pre-season’ of weekly design exercises) will focus one of Melbourne’s most popular and contentious inner urban sites. Group work, and negotiating skills, are core to the studio and to our practice.

The studio will be based in the Lyons office and led by Professor Carey Lyon, Adam Pustola and Nick Bourns.

TUESDAYS 6 – 9PM AT LYONS OFFICE Level 3 246 Bourke St, Melbourne NOTE: First Studio session will be held on Wednesday 19 July

Students will work within a ‘design discourse’, where the studio will bring together layers of built context and the ideas and thinkers that connect our discipline with abutting cultures.

let’s dense

What’s left for architecture when you strip away the props that we regularly lean on? The techniques, methods, processes that take us to the forms that inhabit the city. What’s left is a clear concept, an idea, an invention born of the imagination. This studio looks at how design can flourish without so much the application of a technical process as a deep understanding of how we live and work now and by imagining how that might be improved through architecture.

We’ll take a site in Werribee, 35km from the CBD, already being developed by Places Victoria. The proposed dwelling density is 11.4 dwellings per hectare. We’ll look at how that can only fail by promoting continuing dependence on car use. We’ll look at how we can more take that density to 26 dwellings per hectare and how that might lead to a more successful outcome. We’ll design a range of house types and add local workplaces, shops and industry, cultural places, a primary school and health centre. We’ll look closely at the existing assets of the area: Werribee River, Open Range Zoo, Racecourse, sports grounds, and aircraft museum, and how we can engage them from our site with a local tram network that also connects to the train station.

The projects will be weekly. The focus will be on what you bring to design. What ideas you have that you can shape into buildings. The repetition of design exercises should enable you to develop a strong sense of yourself as a future architect.

Project area: 197 hectares 5,200 Residences: 2260 homes at completion.

Wednesday 5:30pm Simone Koch

RMIT MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN SEMESTER 2 2017 RMIT MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE SEMESTER 2 2017

GOING GOWNTOWN (OR THE CATALYTIC CONVERTER)

The State Government of Victoria has purchased, and is masterplanning, the 32 hectare former General Motors Holden (GMH) site at Fishermans Bend with the intention of developing Australia’s new home for design, education, engineering and technology. However, Melbourne’s recent form with the development of renewal at this scale has been guided by a series of formulaic received ideas and lazy clichés that seemly likely to deliver a business park at GMH rather than an urban campus. This studio will contest the generic and unquestioned orthodoxies of contemporary precinct making – the tabula rasa, the co-ordinating master plan, a benign public realm, the building as autonomous object - and seek to uncouple them from the venturous, spatial and disaggregated urban campus of which RMIT is an exemplar.

We will analyse the disaggregated campus as a typology and propose counter arguments for designing and growing the city based on enabling infrastructure, catalytic agents and accelerated evolution. We will put our assumptions to the test by providing a spatial design that will act as a catalyst for the GMH site and the proposed 200Ha ‘Employment Precinct’ at Fisherman’s Bend.

The studio will be run in association with Ian Nazareth’s Eco-Urban Practices Elective, and will share a mid-semester symposium with Mauro Baracco and Caitlyn Parry’s studio on Melbourne’s Urban Innovation District where representatives from Government, practice and industry will speak about the design of new precincts within the city.

WHERE: (100.7.TBC). WHEN: Tuesday Nights 6:00-10:00. STUDIO LEADER: Mark Jacques.

RMIT Architecture & Urban Design

Master of Urban Design and Master of Architecture Travelling Design Studios Semester 02 2017

INCLUSIVE CITY : BARCELONA

Tutor: Professor Eva Prats (RMIT Architecture & Urban Design and Flores & Prats Architects) Proposed Timeline: Travel Dates - November 28 – December 12 2017.

Travelling to: Barcelona, Spain Brief: The old neighborhood of Poblenou in Barcelona grew under the industrial revolution during the mid 19th Century. When production started disappearing from European cities around the last decades of the 20th Century, this neighborhood, a former major industrial area, became the scenario for the testing of different possible urban futures. The start of this process was the moment it hosted a brand new Athletes’ Village for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics that erased all the industrial pre-existences. The second step was a plan to convert former polluting industry into clean-tech businesses in the early 21st Century.

The global crisis of 2007 stopped the sequence of transformations and froze a scene that survives until today. It is the image of a fragmented reality. This Studio will focus on the social and urban rehabilitation of a neglected area of Poblenou, nowadays occupied with illegal settlements, introducing a program of social housing with communal facilities as a catalyst to change this fragmented part of the city into an inclusive neighborhood.

Description: RMIT Master of Urban Design and Master of Architecture students will travel to Barcelona, Spain to work with Professor of Architecture Staff member Eva Prats from the architectural practice Flores Prats - who is a renowned Spanish architect based on our RMIT EU site in Barcelona. They will work with Eva on studying Barcelona and producing a project based in that city.

FLORES & PRATS, ARCHS is an architecture studio based in Barcelona. It was established in 1998 by Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores. Since then, the studio has been involved in several kinds of projects, especially for the Public Administration through open competitions. These include residential and public buildings, as well as public spaces, exhibition design and site-specific installations for major cultural institutions and museums, including Tàpies Foundation, Miró Foundation and Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. After winning the competition in 2008, they are currently designing the new Microsoft Campus in Milan.

Eva Prats was born in Barcelona in 1965. Studies architecture at ETSAB, graduating in 1992. Obtains a Special Mention at the Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí Annual Architectural Award, in 1991 and 1993. Since 1986 until 1991 collaborates at Enric Miralles and Carme Pinòs’ office, and continues to collaborate with Enric Miralles until 1994. She is Associated Professor of Design Studio at ETSAB since 2002 and Professor of Architecture (Urbanism) at RMIT, Melbourne.

RMIT Support: Students who successfully ballot are eligible to apply for RMIT Student Mobility Grants: http://www1.rmit.edu.au/scholarships/mobility Maximum number of students: 12 Information session will be held on: TBC Contact: Ben Milbourne (ben.milboure@rmit.edu.au) and Emma Jackson (emma.jackson@rmit.edu.au)

FACTORY FIELDS JOHN DOYLE | WEDNESDAY EVENINGS

This studio will focus on manufacturing and production as a component of high density urban environments. Manufacturing in the 20th century was focused on large scale production to gain economies of scale. The urban impact of this can be found in the periphery of industrial centres around the world, where vast swathes of land has been given over to low density factory landscapes. This is most evident in the new megacities of Asia, such as the Pearl River and Mekong Deltas which produce a large percentage of the world’s consumer goods.

In the 21st century, traditional models of manufacturing are progressively becoming obsolete, with new technologies and the drive towards full automation changing the way things are made. More and more it is possible for manufacturing and production to occur in close proximity to urban centres. The most obvious form of this is craft or artisanal ‘making’. 3d printing and other fabrication technologies have made it is increasingly possible for the production of objects, and complex assemblies to take place in non-industrial settings, however this is the tip of the iceberg. In the future it will be possible for everything from computer components to fresh food to be produced within our urban environments.

In this space the challenge for architecture is to envision how these shifts might change our cities, both through form and typology, but also in the way they are programmed, inhabited and influence our social structures; the challenge is to understand the role of the architect in designing the manufacturing spaces of the future, and to draw on technical innovation as a catalyst of architectural design innovation.

These ideas will be tested through the design of a high density mixed use manufacturing and research complex in the Medini development site in Malaysia. The studio will form a part of the Malaysia Biennial 100YC: Medini 2017 studios. However the studio will focus on the scale of the building & the precinct rather than the city. Students will be working in small groups, and will expected to engage with digital design processes, fabrication technologies and specific case studies & business models of organisations driving manufacturing innovation in the 21st Century.

IDENTITY, ETHNICITY, TRANSLATION AND MEANING LOST AND REDISCOVERED

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Since Australia moved beyond the myth of the sunburnt country, we found, expressed, manipulated and subverted the material of our suburbs - exposing a true Australia, made manifest in our Architecture. The Australian story is that of the first strangers – White Australians. It neglects the Strangers who followed, homesick, longing for ways to make their new home familiar, not so bright, bland, dull, new or empty.

How do we learn to look at the suburbs anew? Is the foam Greek column propping up a veranda of a brick veneer house worth preserving? Is the gold painted concrete lion outside a Buddhist temple really sacred? Does it belong here? How do we respect their significance especially when no one will remember what it means in the future.

How do we look for potential with an Architects eye?

How do we look at ourselves, to expose and design for the updated Australian Story?

HELEN DUONG + TIM PYKE WEDNESDAYS 6.30PM

MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE

A critical interrogation of the house in the Postdigital Age.

MATIAS DEL CAMPO with Cameron Newnham

Master of Architecture Intensive Design Studio Semester 2, 2017 Weeks 1-5 Monday 1:30pm-5:30pm Thursday 9:30am-1:30pm RMIT Design Hub (TBC)

In 1945 the then director of design at the prestigious Herman Miller furniture outlet, George Nelson, published the book Tomorrow’s House a critical examination of -then- contemporary techniques of housing design and construction. Dividing the house into its conventional components such as kitchen, bath, living room, sleeping rooms etc. it examines each of those elements for its potentials in terms of connectivity, openness and integration of technological means. It can be considered the Leitfaden of Midcentury architecture and at closer examination the book reveals that in fact the criteria and rules setup by Nelson almost ¾ of a century ago are still being applied today – albeit the dramatic changes in our contemporary age including new design and fabrication technologies as well as the intellectual challenge to operate in a Postdigital age.

Graceful Machines The Studio’s ambition is to pick up where Nelson left and critically interrogate the house in the 21st century.

Both comprehensive as well as speculative in nature the studio strives to propose, and provoke, variations on the topic of the house using advanced design processes.

The studio strives to investigate, comment and propose the idea of the Machine of Loving Grace in the form of a project.

The Postdigital The transition from the 20th to the 21st century saw the first wave of computational means proliferating into the mainstream market and filling every single niche of our immediate environments. Digital tools turned from being the exception to becoming the norm. In this light, new speculations on the nature of architecture are necessary. It is apparent that in our current moment in time we are starting to discuss these possibilities on a larger scale. The studio embraces the opportunity for new speculations that describe a postdigital world in which the organization of matter is achieved through an approach that seamlessly combines advanced technologies and organic matter to something that can be described as a synthetic ecology.

Process Knowledge of TopMod and Maya are welcome but not a prerequisite.

OTHER HOMES

Lecturer Peter Brew Wed JUNE 28 2017 Sue Attached are notes made from our meeting at the end of last month. These were an attempt to capture a some of the thoughts of what we might explore in the context of a Masters of Architecture Studio. As we discussed the proposal is to use your current project for Transitional housing units in Werribee as the starting point for the studio. Though I imagine that in the second part of the semester they may test their findings in other circumstances (bigger, denser ,more remote etc) . Our Studio will be separate but co-ordinated with research electives proposed by Mick Douglas and Caroline Vains in industrial and Interior Design.

Thinking through the sort of criteria you might use for site selection. I began to wonder if the Homelessness might in some respects be a systemic problem , that despite that we understand it to be in many ways necessary it is neither planned for or anticipated in our modern suburbs , There is no space set aside for it, nor is it permitted as an as of right as a use. It is possible you may find that sites for your project may not exist, in the sort of locations that would allow the program that you envisage, Maybe we can as part of the studio look into how we might bring about circumstances that would ideal for these projects.

I am struck by the extent that transitional housing has been predetermined by the procurement process; the size of available land or buildings, project delivery, budgets, accounting and management protocols, while the needs, purpose and requirements of the residents are inevitably deferred to a future, to other people ‘as at a later stage’. In some respect, what is considered good design are projects which deal with the problems of their own making better.

There may be benefits and opportunities if we instead focus on housing as a residential program, This may see the focus shift to dwelling as enabling infrastructure for life. of being and occupation as things, as such we may be able to cause the problem to be recast from planning and building , of real estate, to be more like the problem of homelessness as discussed as the philosopher Adorno and dwelling as by Heidegger .

What we will hope to do is explore the project at multiple scales, the room the window, the apartment, a set of units in a range of different contexts, and in combinations with other things, neighbourhoods, shops, parks, schools, hardware stores market gardens etc. We need to establish what is fixed (has to be) and what is not for these projects. We may look at current technologies for facilities management (Airbnb crowd sourcing /forming building monitoring etc.) as well as models for development, regulation and planning overlays as design strategies to bring about the sort of outcomes that you have identified for the project.

Peter Brew B Arch PhD Lecturer RMIT

RACHEL WHITEREAD Untitled, 2013 Resin 2 panels: 38 9/16 x 18 7/8 x 2 15/16 inches (98 x 48 x 7.5 cm) Photo by Mike Bruce

MUID Melbourne’s Urban Innovation District Architecture UP Design Studio sem 2-2017 Tutor: Mauro Baracco and Caitlyn Parry Tuesday evenings, 5.30-9.30 pm

This studio will investigate the urban area comprised between the university poles of RMIT and Melbourne University, also inclusive of Queen Victoria Market, as a potential knowledge/innovation district.

Expanding from previous studies focused on this area, the studio will test urban, architectural and landscape interventions into the existing context, in order to create integrated built and open spaces for a mix & cross of programs, from research to education, commercial, cultural and accommodation among others.

The studio will also explore similar international case-studies, the study of which will also contribute to the formulation of the project briefs.

Students will be working in small groups.

SKUNK WORKS 2 THE SH*T OF OTHERS

ARM PRACTICE STUDIO

A CO-PRODUCTION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY

FRIDAYS 3PM | 11/522 FLINDERS LANE

Paul Minifie & Cameron Newnham | M.Arch | M.UD | Thursday 1:30-5:30pm | 100.04.06 Fast rail collapses space, or more correctly, time. This studio will design a new fast rail connected city on a greenfield site near Seymour for 300,000 people.

Cities are technologies for producing productive and richly lived lives for their inhabitants and the key way it does this is by making immediately available the huge variety of experiences, opportunities, services, people, resources, inputs and outputs needed for contemporary life.

Cities grow as more people want to take up the opportunities they offer, but with growth comes congestion, that is it takes longer to access the resources that cities offer. While Melbourne’s population grows, productivity (and arguably the quality of life) of its residents has plateaued.

This studio starts with the proposition that connecting a new peripheral city by fast rail to the centre of Melbourne is one way to address future growth.

Fast rail connections could make a new city effectively a new middle suburb of Melbourne. It will be developed by exploring, using novel digital tools, the proposition that connectivity is the key structural driver of effective cities.

So what should be the qualities of such a city? What would it need to work most effectively and be a sustainable, healthy and prosperous place to live?

What would it take to make people choose to live there? What new kinds of city could provide richly appropriate and beautiful environment for its residents?

R E O C I M T E I E E S S nfield conurbation for 30 e e r g l i a r t 0,000 A fas

Attractive nuisance states that a landowner may be held liable for injuries to children trespassing on the land if the injury is caused by an object on the land that is likely to attract children.

Context: The child’s physical harm was caused by an artificial condition on the land. The landowner knew or should have known that children would trespass near the artificial condition. ... The risk created by the artificial condition is greater than its benefit to the landowner.

Tutor: Simon Drysdale Wednesday 6pm+

Melbroune Mosque A NEW MOSQUE FOR THE CITY OF MELBOURNE The City of Melbourne Mosque, housed in a tired, converted 1960’s warehouse, is at capacity, and does not have the architectural qualities that international vistors might expect of a mosque - such as those in Isfahan.

4% of Australia’s population identifies with the religion of Islam. The incresase in the demonisation of Muslims in the Western media since September 11 has caused an increasing number of non-practicising Muslims to retrun to the formalised practices of Islam, - leading to increased demand on Mosques. The City of Melbourne has a higher than average proportion of Muslims due to the left-leaning politics of its populace and a high number of international students and, unlike many suburban Mosques, the City of Melbourne Mosque attracts worshipers from a very wide range of nationalities

In the latest City of Melbourne local government elections, a large number of votes were secured by the incumbent as a direct result of him visiting local Islamic communities during his campaign, laying the ground work for support from the city of Melbourne for better mosque facilities This studio will propose and a design a new Mosque i n the city of Melbourne to a brief provided by the studio’s client - the Isalmic Council of Victoria. Students will be asked to speculate on the nature of contemporary Mosque architecture and test these speculations through the design of a building on a new site. The output of the studio will be a publication, presentation and public exhibition.

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